Why can t novice beekeepers always get honey?

Hello everyone, many new friends are just getting started, and they often like to ask me: "Why does beekeeping always fail to get honey during the honey season?" Why do our bees always get so much honey? ”

Please note here that first of all, we beekeeping should carefully understand the characteristics and habits of bees, what we need to know is that dense bees in different working days, it can do different work, if it is time to collect flowers, your bees are some old bees or some new bees have just come out of the house, then it is conceivable that these bees, they will definitely not help you to successfully collect honey. So, if you're planning to make a splash of honey during the honey season, collect more honey.

So, the first step: you have to find a way to breed more bees 35 to 40 days in advance. This is called early breeding, which is about 40 centimeters in advance.

Also, the second step: is to take the official website to make honey, that is to say, to honey instead of bees. In the season of honey collection and honey retention, some friends usually use the method of excessive honey extraction in order to obtain a large amount of honey, and finally take honey once and do not manage it properly, which finally causes many problems in the bee colony.

In fact, many novice beekeepers, what they don't understand is: "The more honey your bee colony steps on, the faster your bees will die." And after we lock up the queen bee, the colony will stop giving birth during a flowering period, and it will only spill honey, not pollen.

And the bee cover in the grass house is also one less than one, freeing up a lot of space to produce honey for the worker bees. Although you don't get honey during the honey season, your bees may reproduce better. On the other hand, if you catch a lot of honey during the honey season, then you may face the problem of your bee colony collapsing all of a sudden, because you can't have both fish and bear's paws.

1. Lack of experience.

Novice beekeeping without honey may be the reason for the lack of experience of beekeepers, many novices have just started beekeeping, do not know much about the living habits of bees, and there is no reasonable planning for the development of bee colonies, which can easily lead to the situation that bee colonies have no honey. For example, there is no timely breeding of bees, resulting in the bee colony in the big honey season there are not enough bees to collect nectar, and when the big stream of honey ends, the bees are up, and there are not many nectar source plants in the outside world at this time, but it will also consume the few honey stores of the bee colony.

2. Reluctant to invest in feeding.

Novice beekeeping without honey may be the reason for reluctance to feed, many novice beekeeping bees are recovered from the wild or trapped, basically no cost, when it is necessary to feed the bee colony, it is reluctant to feed, resulting in the bee colony is weak and no honey is desirable, and in serious cases, it will also lead to the bee colony fleeing or starving. For example, if there is no reward feeding when the bee colony is multiplying bees, it will lead to slow bee development, and the colony will not have enough collection bees when the honey flow period comes, resulting in low honey production in the colony and no honey to be desired.

The credulous belief in the legend of the bee taking honey once a year, never take honey, due to the poor honey collection ability of the bee, the honey storage in the beehive is not much, many amateur beekeepers are reluctant to take honey, never feed.

It's because you don't pay attention to the point of beekeeping when you keep bees, and you don't have the right way to get honey.

1. Hunger prevention generally refers to the fact that bees are hungry in winter, when the flowers are blooming. Whether the feed is of high quality and sufficient quantity during the whole overwintering period is the basis for the success or failure of bees in wintering. The feed is of high quality, most of the bees are digested after eating, the bee colony is quiet and stable, has a long lifespan, does not decline in spring, and reproduces rapidly; Nectar sources are abundant, within 2 km, there are at least two or more main nectar sources throughout the year, in addition, there should be some auxiliary nectar sources with staggered flowering periods.

In the area where the flowering period is short and the nectar is flowing, it is best to place the bee colony in a slightly lower downwind position than the nectar source.

<> bees: the full name of Chinese bees, is not only a unique excellent bee species in China, but also the oldest bee species in China, the advantage is that it has a strong adaptability to China's natural environment, the disadvantage is that the honey production performance is not satisfactory bees and easy to naturally divide bees and abandon the nest because of the short domestication time of Chinese bees, strong wildness, poor orientation ability, easy to get lost in the nest, so the placement of Chinese bees can not be placed in rows, neat and tight, the direction is consistent. Place the Chinese bee colony, the distance between the groups should be farther away, and the front and back are staggered.

If you want to raise bees, then you must prepare the tools for raising bees, that is, the beehive, and the bait, in fact, this beehive can be made at home, because his method is relatively simple, but after it is done, the surrounding environment, the location of the apiary: choose a place from north to south, leeward and quiet. Support the flowering period of artificially planted fruit trees and other crops within the activity range of bees in the apiary, and do a good job of protection to prevent pesticide poisoning.

Find out the source of honey around the apiary and whether there are already apiaries around.

My point is: the first step is to be prepared to go around and endure hardships. The second step is to find a beekeeper to learn from you.

Experience the hard work of beekeeping and learn the techniques. The third step is to consider what kind of bees to raise and how large to raise in combination with your actual situation. The choice of bee species largely determines the economic benefits of beekeeping, at present, the largest breeding scale in China is the Chinese honey bee and the Italian bee, among which the Italian bee has a strong collection power for bulk honey sources, high honey yield but low honey.

In fact, the human factor is mainly considered to be the problem of scientific breeding, the natural environment we can not change, but the beekeeping environment we can choose, then from the perspective of bee breeding, human factors will affect the honey production of the main factors are the location of the bee farm, the replacement frequency of the queen bee, and the frequency of honey extraction.

Special feeds should be used, as only then can bees be better helped to produce honey.

Summary. Summer is the peak season for nest insects in the bee colony, beekeepers in the late spring, when the bee colony goes through the collection of honey during the flow period, the beehive is "full of honey pollen", the queen bee in the bee colony likes to lay eggs on the new nest spleen, and the old nest spleen stores more honey and pollen, due to the "coexistence of honey" on the honeycomb spleen of the bee, the beekeeper uses a centrifuge honey shaker to shake the honey, the honeycomb spleen under the action of centrifugal force, the small larvae in the worker hive room that have not been sealed will be thrown off, affecting the healthy growth of the larvae, at the same time, The old nest spleen is prone to nest insects in the summer.

Summer is the peak season for nest insects in the bee colony, beekeepers in the late spring, when the bee colony goes through the collection of honey during the flow period, the beehive is "full of honey pollen", the queen bee in the bee colony likes to lay eggs on the new nest spleen, and the old nest spleen stores more honey and pollen. The old nest spleen is easy to breed nest feast insects in summer.

At this time, the beekeeper can take the method of "scraping the spleen to extract honey", scraping off the honey storage on the spleen of the old nest, and trying to retain the honey storage on the spleen of the new nest. With the advent of summer, the enthusiasm of the bee colony to make a spleen is weakened, and the beekeeper extracts the spleen of the old nest to scrape the spleen to extract honey will find that the worker bees do not make a new nest spleen.